27 December 2023 update: Bluesky is now publically viewable without logging in! You’ll still need an invite code to join, but now you can check out the site and view posts before creating an account. Check out my profile here. Some other notable features which have been added since I first wrote this post are the ability to control who replies to your posts and the ability to create (public) […]
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Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Livingby Dimitris XygalatasSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: Sept. 2022Publisher: Little, Brown Spark (Hachette)Length: 311 pages Genre: Non-fictionTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +14) Summary 💬 Ritual is one of the oldest, and certainly most enigmatic, threads in the history of human culture. It presents a profound paradox: people ascribe the utmost importance to their rituals, but few can explain why they are so important. Apparently pointless ceremonies pervade every documented society, from […]
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And Then She Fellby Alicia ElliottSource: ebook/NetGalleyPublished: 26 Sept. 2023Publisher: Doubleday Canada (PRH)Length: 368 pages Genre: Contemporary horrorTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +16)Representation: Mohawk, mental illness (esp. psychosis) Summary 💬 On the surface, Alice is exactly where she thinks she should be. She’s just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her charming husband, Steve—a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture—is nothing but supportive; and they’ve moved […]
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Books Read As August has ended, so too has my participation in Bit About Books Summer Reading Challenge. Here are the books I selected for the challenge (checkmark = book read): I ended up not getting to my picks for fantasy & scifi and diveristy & multicultural – which would typically be my most read categories, if you look at my middle grade reading for an entire year! But, almost […]
July’s Result – The Familiars by Stacey Halls I don’t need much to enjoy a story set in the medieval period. The Familiars focuses more on gentry than what I usually read, but with its exploration of women’s medicine and witchcraft, I was content throughout most of the story. I found it a little dry going at times, as the plot is mostly carried forward by Fleetwood riding around and […]